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Iron Man, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Iron Man, a wonder tale from Romania, told by Ben Haggarty as part of the programme May Eve, performed by The Company of Storytellers, at Norwich library, as part of Norfolk Library and Information Service Storytelling Festival in 1994 | |
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| Music by all three performers, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty. A widowed King has three sons, the youngest of which he hates. They are sent out into the world to seek their fortune. The eldest two sons gain kingdoms and wives, but the youngest son ends up making his life in a swamp. A silver women comes to his aid. The youngest son takes the silver women to meet his father, but the King takes the silver women captive. The youngest son undertakes a number of challenges set by the King, in order to save the silver women. He succeeds by calling on the help of the silver women's brother: the Iron Man, who lives in the swamp. The King is killed by the Iron Man. The silver women is released, and turns gold, and the youngest son and she are married. | |
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| This same story was told by Ben Haggarty in the form of a performance with a Kavad, a painted storytelling box, as a commission for Festival at the Edge, in 2005. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 31 minutes, 33 seconds |
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| The Company of Storytellers at that time comprised Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. | |
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| The Company of Storytellers (C.O.S.T) was formed in March/April 1985 with the expressed aim of performing storytelling for adult audiences. C.O.S.T was actually formed during a tour in East Anglia by Sally Pomme Clayton, Hugh Lupton and Ben Haggarty. The official launch of COST was in 1986 at Common Stock Theatre, London. At this point the members of C.O.S.T were Sally Pomme Clayton, TUUP, Ben Haggarty, Daisy Keable, Hugh Lupton. However TUUP and Daisy Keable did not remain in the group and it is as a trio of storytellers, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton, that C.O.S.T is publicly known. C.O.S.T was disbanded in 1999, but periodically reforms to perform the Three Snake Leaves. The two seminal pieces developed and performed by C.O.S.T were The Three Snake Leaves and I Become Part of It. | |
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| storytelling:- | storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller; musician: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
musician; storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| storytelling:- |
musician; storyteller: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh |
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Romania
Romani; Gypsy |
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| administration:- |
administrator: Norfolk Library and Information Service |
| storytelling:- |
Norwich, Norfolk, England: Norwich Library
1994 festival: Norfolk Library and Information Service Storytelling Festival May Eve |
| gift from:- |
storytelling group: The Company of Storytellers |
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